Freeborn & Peters issued the following announcement on April 25.
Freeborn & Peters LLP is pleased to announce that Chambers USA has ranked the Co-Leaders of the firm’s Environment and Energy Law Practice Group.
In the 2019 edition of the Chambers guide that lists the top lawyers and law firms in the United States, firm Partner Philip L. Comella was ranked in Illinois for Environment: Litigation, and Firm Partner Christopher J. Townsend was ranked in Illinois for Energy & Natural Resources: Regulatory.
“We are very proud of the recognition for our Environment & Energy Law attorneys in the 2019 edition of the prestigious Chambers USA guide,” said Freeborn Co-Managing Partner Joseph L. Fogel. “We congratulate Phil and Chris, who have created a unique group that serves clients in both the environmental and energy sectors.”
Freeborn has assembled a diverse group of environmental lawyers whose skills range from traditional areas – such as Superfund, hazardous and solid waste, PCBs, the Clean Air Act, and Brownfields – to emerging areas – such as naturally occurring radioactive materials, landfill gas, vapor intrusion, and electronic waste.
Freeborn’s nationally recognized energy lawyers have more than two decades of experience helping forward-thinking energy market participants navigate their way through the ever-changing landscape of the energy industry, assisting with a broad range of transactional, regulatory, litigation, and government relations matters.
Mr. Comella’s practice spans both regulatory counseling and environmental-based litigation. With more than three decades of experience in environmental law, and a focus on the solid and hazardous waste industry, he regularly counsels owners and operators of landfills, treatment facilities, recycling operations, and waste generators on compliance and permitting matters arising under the environmental laws.
Mr. Townsend has over two decades of experience representing forward-thinking energy market participants, both individually and in coalitions, develop, defend and improve the structures for effective and efficient competition in the energy markets. He regularly provides guidance to entities other than the local utilities, including advising large industrial, institutional and commercial energy users, municipalities and other governmental entities with energy-related issues; assisting alternative electricity and natural gas suppliers in developing the structures for energy markets; representing energy project developers on complex and cutting-edge projects; and assisting numerous other large-scale energy industry participants.
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